flight /ˈflaɪt/
飛行,逃走,飛躍,飛機的航程,班機,射程,遷徙,飛逝(vi.)遷徙(vt.)射擊(飛禽)
flight
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Flight n.
1. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
Like the night owl's lazy flight. --Shak.
2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure.
Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. --Matt. xxiv. 20.
Fain by flight to save themselves. --Shak.
3. Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly.
Could he have kept his spirit to that flight,
He had been happy. --Byron.
His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. --Macaulay.
4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows.
Swift flights of angels ministrant. --Milton.
Like a flight of fowl
Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. --Shak.
5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another.
6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.]
Challenged Cupid at the flight. --Shak.
Not a flight drawn home
E'er made that haste that they have. --Beau. & Fl.
7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.]
Flight feathers Zool., the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird.
To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout.
{to take a flight9}, to make a trip in an airplane, especially a scheduled flight9.
Syn: -- Pair; set. See Pair.
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flight
n 1: a formation of aircraft in flight
2: an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an
exciting adventure for him" [syn: flying]
3: a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and
the next [syn: flight of stairs, flight of steps]
4: the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the
mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his
flight was an indication of his guilt" [syn: escape]
5: an air force unit smaller than a squadron
6: passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of
fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"
7: the path followed by an object moving through space [syn: trajectory]
8: a flock of flying birds
9: a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports; "I
took the noon flight to Chicago"
v 1: shoot a bird in flight
2: fly in a flock; "flighting wild geese"
3: decorate with feathers; "fledge an arrow" [syn: fledge]